FTDM welcomes TV-film directors

Fort Worth, TX

10/20/2009

TCU’s Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media (FTDM) welcomes guest speakers Rusty Mahmood, first assistant director of the hit NBC TV show The Office and writer-director Kara Harshbarger (TCU FTDM 1996), to campus Oct. 30 – Nov. 2. Mahmood and Harshbarger will hold a public lecture on Monday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. in Moudy South, room 164.  The event is free and open to the public.

Recently, Mahmood has been working as the first assistant director for the NBC TV show The Office as well as working on production crews for films such as The 40 Year Old Virgin and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.  Harshbarger is best known for writing and directing the feature film, A Little Inside.

For more information, visit the FTDM website at www.ftdm.tcu.edu or e-mail FTDM Special Projects Coordinator Julie Harrison at j.harrison@tcu.edu.

The FTDM department is part of the College of Communications.